108 FOOTE: south MAHBATTA COUNTRYo 



mile east of the great tank at Kendur (Khenthoor), the boundary 

 between the quartzites and gneiss is formed by a 



of Kaladgi°basin!^^°" line of fault which extends for about three miles. 

 Some fine cliff scenery in which the quartzites 



are exceedingly well shown occurs near the eastern end of the fault. 



The boundary of the Kaladgi basin in this quarter is extremely 

 sinuousj the denudation of the basement beds exposing the gneissic rocks 

 in various deeply cut valleys forming bays running far into the area of 

 the basin. The he of the basement beds along this part of the boundary 

 is generally rather undulating, but considerable areas of rather disturbed 

 strata alternate with equal areas in which no disturbance took place, and 

 the strata are horizontal, or but very slightly inclined. 



To the north of the small town of Guledgudd (Gooludgoodapeit) 



this variation of position of the strata is very 



well marked. The surface of the high plateau 



lying between Sirur and Guledgudd, which is very undulating^ is over 



a large extent of it coincident with the true surface of the beds exposed. 



Within a mile of Sirur the beds suddenly roll over northward and 



dip under the limestone and shale series, which here approaches near 



to the edge of the Kaladgi basin. The hills which extend westward 



from the plateau form a low anticlinal arch which extends several miles 



westward and dies away under the limestone and shale series at Kattigiri 



(Kutteegeeree) . Eastward of Sirur the basement series form a ridge of 



considerable height with a dip of 30° to 35° north which extends to and 



crosses the Malprabha river at the village of 



Ramdhal, where there is a beautiful show of rippled 



quartzites of reddish color resting on beds of very handsome purple 



breccia, which in their turn rest with marked unconformity on the gneissic 



rocks, here consisting of grey and reddish-brown schists and jaspery 



hematite schists, which latter doubtless were the source of the materials 



seen in the breccia. A remarkable set of breccia beds forms the very 



base of the Kaladgi basin just where the new high road between 



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